The film's dialogue isn't any worse than most of the garbage coming out of Hollywood these days, so it's hard to get bogged down on that issue. He even cries hysterically when (SPOILER ALERT) his girlfriend plummets to her death, so it's hard to get excited when (SPOILER ALERT #2) the lone surviving member of the team swims past his drowned corpse. Is he intensely annoying with his video camera? Absolutely. Does he have some evil plan concocted to screw over the surviving members of the team? Nah. Does he make an effort to be a team player for most of the story? Sure. Notwithstanding the film's poor use of 3D, its biggest crime was that the bad guy, billionaire playboy Carl (Ioan Gruffudd), wasn't really that bad. The film lost money domestically and if not for the foreign box office, it would have been a major loser at the box office. Director Alister Grierson delivered a cross between The Descent and Deep Blue Sea. The studio deserves some of the blame for this dreadful film because it played up the "James Cameron" angle so much that people were expecting a cross between the Abyss (the greatest underwater film ever made) and Avatar.
With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it.Karen Dahlstom's review of Sanctum pretty much hit the stalagmite on the head, but I disagree with her on one point there was some suspense - It was suspenseful waiting to see how all of the annoying characters were going to die. But when his exit is cut off in a flood, Frank team - including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd) - are forced to radically alter plans. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific Esa-ala Caves for months. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea.
Sanctum (2011): The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of water cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on earth.
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